OUR 2018 - 2019 SEASON

The Power of Memory and Imagination
in Modern Times

Last season, Spooky Action's plays stepped behind the scenes to experience the magical reality that animates our lives. For our 2018-2019 season, we travel in time and space to rediscover the power of memory and imagination and reflect on current issues that permeate our daily lives—the refugee and immigrant crisis; finding spirits past alive in the present; and a family’s willingness to embrace a radical notion of what's best for their children.
Among the Dead
February 14 - March 10, 2019
written by Hansol Jung
​directed by Richard Henrich
Three separate time periods collide in a small hotel room in Korea. Mediated by a shape-shifting Jesus who first shows up as a bellboy. Three characters have to come to terms with their stories.
Production Team
​Stage Manager - Katie Bucher
Assistant Director - Danny Romeo
Set Design - April Joy
Lighting Design - Dean Leong
Sound Design - Navid Azeez
Ana is a Korean American who travels to Seoul in 1975 to retrieve her recently deceased father’s ashes. Luke is a young American soldier fighting in the jungles of Burma in 1944. Number Four is the name of a Korean comfort woman camping out on a bridge in Seoul in 1950, waiting for the return of the young American soldier who fathered her daughter.
Cast
Julie Mun*
Kyosin Kang
Chris Stinson*
Nahm Darr
*member Actor's Equity Association
The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies
June 6 - 30, 2019
written by Sarah Ruhl
directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer

An American mother and a Tibetan father must make a life-altering choice that will test their strength, their marriage and their hearts. Two Tibetan monks seek their three-year-old son. The boy is the reincarnation of a revered Buddhist lama, and the monks propose to take the child away for a life of spiritual training in India.
“The Oldest Boy is a richly emotional journey filled with music, dance, puppetry, ritual and laughter — Sarah Ruhl at her imaginative best,” says Artistic Director Richard Henrich. “A meditation on attachment and unconditional love, the play shows us a world in which the youngest children are sometimes also the oldest and wisest teachers.”

"This season we offer three unique plays that plumb the power of memory and imagination. In each play, memory and imagination do not simply recall the past, they create it. Following the characters, we step beyond the present place and time to connect with a moment lost. And with that moment found, become eternally renewed." 
–Artistic Director Richard Henrich

Spooky Action programming presented with support from
Share Fund
and the Julian R and Varue W Oishei Foundation
Our season is funded in part by  the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts